So, apparently I’m doing this thing called Pitch Wars next week. I have my first chapter reasonably polished, hammered together something that might pass for a hook, cooked up an 800-word synopsis, and achieved a query that didn’t make my current CPs barf. I am exhausted but happy. For people stalking my mms, there’s plenty…
Read More My Pitch Wars bioThis deserves a post of its own. Dan Koboldt has this reasoned and honest breakdown of last months’ #SFFpit Twitter pitch event. The Fifth SFFpit and Twitter Pitch Fatigue I’ve linked to it here, because it has some very good info for people just now querying science fiction and fantasy. Some mitigating factors include bad…
Read More An #SFFPit analysisA subtweety primer, for folks who ship stuff from online sales: If you are selling glass jars of honey over international borders, it doesn’t matter if you carefully wrap all jars in bubble wrap…if you push them against one side of a too-small cardboard box! Nor does the amount of air-packs and newspaper you stuffed…
Read More Packing and shipping for dummiesI say ‘first edition’ because I have several future paths for my first published novel, now that its association with Loose Id LLC has come to an end. Moro’s Price no longer exists as an ebook on Amazon.com, or on the Loose Id website. Over the next month or so, it will leave AllRomance Ebooks,…
Read More Moro’s Price first edition 2012 to 2016A progress shot of the constructed-fabric scarf I just made from some of these gray-tan linen strips I showed before. I posted the image on Twitter a few minutes ago, so here are the specifics: Size: 80″x9″ Materials: 1.25×80″ linen strips / matching thread / some secret ingredients / 140 flat mother-of-pearl shell rectangle beads.…
Read More Linen pearl scarf in progressOne of the perks of living in a large, relatively low-income Sun Belt city is the diversity of thrift store finds. As I’ve mentioned before, a lot of this transferred wealth comes from tragedy: retirees dying off and their heirs shoveling stuff to Goodwill or the dump, divorced or unemployed folks suddenly having to get…
Read More Thrift store treasures: flask and black glovesI love this graphic novel series enough to have it in my sidebar. I follow several dozen online and print graphic novels, because they’re excellent. If I included them in the links, it would be probably bore you. Girl Genius is there for lots of reasons. Give me 600 words, and I’ll blather about why…
Read More Learn to write with Girl GeniusDelaney Green is one of them that don’t burn. Possessed of the Touch – with the ability to not only see the future but manipulate it – she’s been kept in an institution for most of her life. When the Salesman, a murderous entity with a connection to Delaney’s past, starts burning girls to death,…
Read More ‘Of Lips And Tongue’ by A.G. Carpenter